Next.js App Router vs RequireJS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Next.js App Router · RequireJS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Next.js App Router · RequireJS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 88,768

132,201

India 68,401

30,963

United Kingdom 34,874

40,149

Germany 33,007

38,420

Brazil 38,534

26,685

Canada 26,982

29,177

France 28,448

27,073

Indonesia 28,605

15,101

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Next.js App Router sites · All RequireJS sites